Come join us for a lovely night of poetry! Witness contemporary, groundbreaking work by featured poets David M. de León and Jade Yeung and stay for an open mic afterwards to share your own work or hear from others. Signups for the open mic are first come, first served, and
Step Right Up: Spectacle, Mask, and Minstrelsy in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio. Program in Comparative & World Literature, Tuesday, Feb 7, 5:30-6:30pm
Communal Spaces 2022 is going up weekends in September. Free outdoor theater!
David was selected for Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies First Book Institute this summer, moderated by Sean X. Goudie and Priscilla Wald.
Letras Latinas announced that The Cats of Old San Juan is a finalist for the 2022 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize with the University of Notre Dame Press, chosen by Adela Najarro and Ariel Francisco.
In the special all-video final issue of The Volta, listen to a musical/visual version of the poem “Lamento Borincano” from The Cats of Old San Juan.
Epic Black: Poetics of Protest in the Era of Black Lives Matter has won the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for writing on African or African American artistic, cultural, and/or historical issues, administered by the History of Art and African American Studies Departments.
